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Heres a look at five weapons-related programs Military.com has reported on this year: Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division used the latest prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during a trench clearing exercise in October at Fort Pickett, Virginia. The event was part of a larger Soldier Touchpoint, the third major milestone in the development and testing of the IVAS, which will undergo one more STP in the spring before initial fielding next year. (U.S. Army Photo by ...

How will that impact that? >> we dont want people operating heavy machine. i am a hypocrite. you smoke when you are younger but you dont want your kids smoking. i think is the direction this country is headed in, though. i like the idea of the taboo around weed because it might repel people on the fence. i agree with something schumer said, if you are black and you walk around with a dime bag, they might book if you are that. if you are a preppie white kid in the suburbs and you are caught, they...

Mud that took out that entire town. so as -- right next to the information board, you see the "daily herald" you can see the headline today. hope starts to dim. but we did talk to the governor, jay inslee in the state of washington and this is a small town, a lot of people know folks, third and fourth generation washingtonions there. and thats all they can have is open right now. people are giving everything they can. food, water, tears and prayer. and the folks in this area of the country will ...

Said gave ideal coverage for insurgents to attack. cop keating, the investigation found, was tactically indefensible. but thats what these soldiers were asked to do. defend the indefensible. the attack came in the morning. just as the sun rose. some of our guys were standing guard. most like clint were still sleeping. the explosions shook them out of their beds and sent them rushing for their weapons. and soon, the awful odds became clear. these 53 americans were surrounded by more than 300 tali...

Workers got him to the hospital, doctors realized he was in far worse shape than he appeared. jonathan hunt is here. tell me what happened to him? >> reporter: well, this is the kind of trick that he has performed many times before in practice and in competition. but frankly, this time, he simply got it wrong. take a look in slow motion. hes trying to do a back flip here. but he gets the landing wrong, coming up short. the skis dig into the slope there, he goes over the front and then that machi...

People, not just the people. >> reporter: so this was a gun fight between the people and the police there? >> the police, yeah. >> reporter: all the signs here of some sort of violent confrontation, burned out tires in the middle of the road and the improvised checkpoints over there, nailed piece of wood. heavy machine gunfire echoing over the sky. not clear what that was. theres a demonstration going on down the road here. its a front line of sorts. now the government officials who were escorti...

The air, and we are trying to find out what happened but havent heard about it yet and those of us familiar with a hostile environment it sounded like a car bomb, but, movement is slow, because of the curfew and the information flow, coming back to us and we heard heavy machine gunfire five hours ago and heightened tensions here tonight and prior to that we were in tahrir square and it was a carnival atmosphere and we went past popcorn stands and there was a peaceful protest going on and, differ...

Accelerated after the tower had been demolish and is that what they planned for, but is that the case? has the effort picked up now? >>. >> it is a scale up also because of the building collapse, and also as well because of the methodology that we are now using it by accurate intelligence that helps us to find out the people very fast with heavy machine, and we are doing it very, very quickly right now. >> do you have a sense of how much work remains and how much longer the search process will l...

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